An Army surgeon involved in U.S. nuclear weapons development repeatedly warned about the impact of radiation on humans, but ...

In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded ... disfigured and poisoned by radiation from the bomb. Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A week later, Japan surrendered.

In this analysis, Columbia University researchers estimated risks for cancer that might be caused by radiation from CT scanning. They used data on long-term cancer incidence among Hiroshima ...

Atomic bomb survivor Hironaka Masaki, 84, speaks to NHK. When the bomb exploded above Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m., the heat and radiation from the blast devastated the city, killing about 140,000 ...

August 6 marks the 75th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attack. Three days after its bombing of the city of Hiroshima, in western Japan , the United States dropped a second atomic bomb ...

Donated to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by Nakasada Tanaka. Hiroshima’s inhabitants came into contact with nuclear radiation in several ways: those close to the centre of the explosion ...

The ruling from the first trial at the Hiroshima District Court pointed ... the possibility of hereditary effects caused by radiation. Children of hibakusha in Nagasaki previously filed a similar ...

The images depict the aftermath of the bombings, showing damage dealt to cities and survivors hit with the blast, its rays and radiation. The city government of Hiroshima, along with five media ...

and both Hiroshima and Nagasaki have seen elevated cancer rates. Of the 50,000 radiation victims from both cities studied by the Japanese-US Radiation Effects Research Foundation, about 100 died ...

and both Hiroshima and Nagasaki have seen elevated cancer rates. Of the 50,000 radiation victims from both cities studied by the Japanese-US Radiation Effects Research Foundation, about 100 died ...

Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors from ...